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Marcel Duchamp’s last painting has influenced artists for a century. The BBC’s Kelly Grovier takes a looks at how it inspired the modern color chart – and at its 17th-Century predecessor in her fascinating story for BBC Culture. She looks at Duchamp's work and the impact over the decades afterwards at the works of artists 'absording and wrestling' with the impact of Duchamp's piece. Read the entire fascinating story, The Mysterious Painting That Changed How We See Colour on the BBC culture page here.

Skylight Music Theatre President, Board of Directors Michael C. Lueder, Artistic Director Ray Jivoff, and Executive Director Jack R. Lemmon announced that Skylight Music Theatre closed on a sale/50 year leaseback of the Broadway Theatre Center to Broadway Theatre LLC, which will improve the property and lease most of it back to Skylight.

Skylight's current production Zombies From the Beyond is a satirical spin on 50’s pulp space-alien flicks.{youtube}v=vt8UrDhEaLw{/youtube}

An 18th-century mechanical theatre was a technology of tricks and devices that changed scenes almost miraculously. With nothing of this scale from history surviving, watch as exhibition designer, Patrick Burnier and his team at the Victoria and Albert Museum recreate a spectacular mechanical theatre for the exhibition, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics.

Fans of all ages are filling the Palace Theatre as the beloved Nickelodeon character SpongeBob comes to Broadway in SpongeBob SquarePants: the Broadway Musical. Projection Designer Peter Nigrini, part of the Tony Award-winning design team, helped tell the story of SpongeBob's heroism as he and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world.

During a performance at the Chattanooga Opera House on Friday, September 22nd, 1899, Julia Morrison, the leading actress of the traveling show, Mr. Plaster of Paris, exited the stage in the middle of her Act II scene with Frank Leiden, leading man and stage manager.[1] She seized the loaded revolver she kept between her breasts, reentered the scene, and shot Leiden three times, killing him. Fifteen hundred audience members looked on in shock until a call for a surgeon roused them.

The nominees for the 2018 Helen Hayes Awards were announced on February 5, 2018. One of the country’s most prestigious cultural honors, The Helen Hayes Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in professional theatre throughout the Washington metropolitan area.